Homicide

Another violent weekend capped another week in which the murder pace exceeded one per day. This occurred because a death from last month was ruled a homicide. There were also 16 nonfatal shootings reported, plus at least one other stabbing. Police made arrests for attempted murder and gun crimes and they found a gun inside a holding cell in the Eastern District police station. Tuesday, June 23 The Office of the Medical Examiner determined last week that the infant found dead inside a car left in a downtown parking garage was asphyxiated. Sina Masoodi, a 6-month-old Asian-American girl, was killed by Sahar Pourrajabi, a woman who killed herself by jumping off the building, police say....

Recently, there has been much discussion in Maryland and nationally about reforming the bail system, but some policymakers and judges appear to be headed down a dangerous path that ultimately puts public safety at risk. These discussions are based on an...

A city jury convicted a 28-year-old Baltimore man in the November 2013 double-murder of brothers in Upper Fells Point, according to the State's Attorney's Office.
Devon Fergerson was found guilty Thursday of two counts of first-degree murder, two...

Prosecutors have information indicating that Freddie Gray "attempted to injure himself" during a previous arrest, but have intentionally withheld it from their criminal case against the six Baltimore police officers charged in Gray's...

An Edgemere couple were found dead inside their home Wednesday, the day police were charging the husband with assault for a dispute over a blocked driveway, Baltimore County police said Thursday.Police identified the victims as William Lee Hasenei, 47,...

On a blighted block of Abington Avenue in West Baltimore, Derrick Smiley said he regularly sees young men selling drugs — but rarely any police."A lot of elderly people are hostages here," he said. "They are afraid for their safety. I think...

Witnesses helped police identify a suspect in a fatal stabbing last week over a $3 dispute, and another in the fatal shooting of a food delivery driver early Sunday morning.
A patrol officer in the right place at the right time chased down a suspect in...

It hangs on the wall in Mike Millemann's office like a yellowed postcard on the family fridge: a copy of a check for $268,482 from Spiro Agnew, the infamous former governor of Maryland and vice president of the United States.Thirty-six years ago,...

MARDELA SPRINGS, Md. (AP) — A Wicomico County man has been charged in the killing of his uncle in a farm field.
Maryland State Police say 31-year-old William B. Harcum III was charged Monday with first- and second-degree murder and first- and...

A Baltimore judge recently agreed to unseal portions of a court hearing that had been closed to the public — proceedings that included allegations of police misconduct — but said Maryland's public information laws justify restricting access to the...

HAGERSTOWN, Md. — A grand jury on Wednesday added murder to the charges facing a man accused of fatally beating a 9-year-old boy over a missing piece of birthday cake.
Washington County State's Attorney Charles Strong also announced indictments against...

A Michigan woman is being charged in the death of a Randallstown man who was found fatally shot in his home earlier this month, Baltimore County police said Wednesday.County police have obtained an arrest warrant for Deidra Veella Griffin of the 2100...

A woman is charged with attempted murder after Baltimore County police said she threw gasoline on her boyfriend and tried to burn down his home.
Police said Lisa Lashell Finley threw gasoline on her boyfriend, and then held a lighter and told him that...

A heavily armed man in his early 20s, acting alone but perhaps radicalized by political resentments, opens fire in a sacred public space, killing several innocent and unarmed people in a sad tragedy that immediately sparks a national debate about the face...

A man who Baltimore police say shot a bail bondsman was charged with attempted murder.Kevin McCallaum, 28, faces charges of attempted murder, handgun and assault offenses after he was arrested on Thursday. On Wednesday night, police said, a bail...

According to the Wall Street Journal, the last serious attempt to count the number of federal criminal laws appears to have been made in 1982 by a retired Justice Department official named Ronald Gainer. He failed, but the estimate then was "...50...

Baltimore police commanders announced Wednesday afternoon that they'd made arrests in four homicides in the previous 48 hours.They also announced arrests in five non-fatal shootings over the course of the last two weeks.The homicide arrests included...

A Baltimore woman thought she was communicating with a hit man willing to kill her ex-boyfriend's wife. But federal authorities say it was an undercover agent the whole time, recording their interactions.
In May, Maria Dolares "Soiry"...

In 2010, Baltimore shut down two of its Safe Streets violence intervention programs after federal authorities tied them to gang activity. The city was unable to substantiate the reports and started them back up. One of the Safe Streets locations in West...